The hockey player checked the defenceman to obtain the puck.

In the western dike is a shoot about 4 feet in diameter carrying a considerable sprinkling of cassiterite, ore which in quantity would undoubtedly be worth mining. The shoot contains a large amount of muscovite mica with quartz and very little or no feldspar...

Real programmers don't write applications programs; they program right down to the bare metal. Applications programming is for wimps who can't do systems programming.

The devil drives the world, whip in hand, — and oddly enough (considering that some belated folk still fancy there is a God somewhere) succeeds in managing his team with extraordinary ease!